Tuesday, April 24, 2012

Encounter Over Rio

I clearly remember the night
of April 25, 2010. I had finished the dishes and put away the food. It was
nearly 11:00. I went out on the veranda
of a house in Jardim Botanica, as I did on most warm nights to breathe in the cooler air. The stars and planets seem much closer in Rio. The heavenly sight always stirred me in a way as
to make me sleepy. On that particular night the moon was 93% full gibbeous and huge lights shone over Christo's base and washed across the Corcavado.

But on this night, two red lights blinked against the clear black sky. The brightness of the lights
were much the same in scale and distance as Venus. They were high above and I had to
crane my neck. They were certainly not aircraft. They were stationary, not
darting around or zooming here and there. But they blinked.

Below these lights I saw a new array of
blinking white lights going in a circle under the initial blinking red lights. Then they began to
whirl around like a sparkler in a fireworks display. I called to my girlfriend to come out to the veranda. She had
lived in the house for nearly 30 years and often star watched from here. She confirmed
what I was seeing and she broke out laughing and calling her friends on the phone.

Just then
the lights began to criss-cross and turn more rapidly in a circle. This was followed
by three more blue\white lights appearing below the red lights. The earlier white
lights now blinked furiously. Then this display was followed by stationary white
lights appearing one …two…three…four…five….all the way down to nine… at the end of a chain.
The entire formation was in a straight line and neither moved laterally nor vertically. By now it was
evident we were watching something beyond human.

We stood on the veranda breathless and enchanted,
in awe and aware of something marvelous. We dared not take our eyes away. At 11:10, the white
light on the very bottom of the cosmic neckless went dark. Then one by one each
of the white lights slowly went dark from bottom to top. The white circling fireworks stopped. Each of The rapidly blinking red and white lights went
out, and finally only two, the original red lights remained. Then they, too, went dark.

Then it was over.

Later we scoured the Internet
to see if there were any other sightings around Rio -- and there are hundreds of new sitings each week in Brazil -- but nothing similar to what we had encountered. We looked for news reports. We had seen something inexplicable, and the
impact was eerie. We needed confirmation.

Over the next week there was
a meteor shower from the Pleiades but this display was feckless, distant and cold compared to
what we had seen.

Ironically, it was on April 25 that Stephen Hawking’s documentary on alien life appeared on
television. He discounted the idea that we will one day make contact with
aliens. He said that a superior life form would simply not recognize us as
anything but inferior life forms. Or worse, they might think we were a food
source.

Also, that day,Arthur C.
Clark was quoted as saying that making contact with aliens would be made more difficult for
us because their advanced technology would be so superior that we
could not possibly perceive their advanced technology as anything "indistinguishable from magic".

And magic it was.

This video was taken in 2012 in Brazil and bears a sriking resemblance to our siting.